Day: October 17, 2018

I bought the novelisation of the film 『未来のミライ』by director Mamoru HOSODA to try the collection Tsubasa of the publisher Kadokawa. Tsubasa is a collection of books for children with full furigana and a wide range of genres classified in different levels of difficulty. 『未来のミライ』, which is novelised by Mamoru HOSODA himself, belongs to the level “小学上級から”. I am very happy with the collection Tsubasa, and I will certainly buy other books from it. However, I had a hard time reading 『未来のミライ』and I would not have finished it, weren’t it for the sake of this review. Read with furigana It really is a pleasure to read a novel with full furigana. I thought of several ways to use the books of this collection to study: Look up more words: I can’t tell you how often I give up looking up a word because I don’t want to draw the kanji in my electronic dictionary. I mean, having the possibility to draw the kanji rather than doing a painful search by key is a great improvement. But sometimes, …

Welcome to my blog! I have been learning Japanese for several years now, and my goal is to be able to read novels in Japanese. I passed N1 in July 2019, and I spend most of my study time learning vocabulary and grammar and reading novels in Japanese. I can read genre fiction (I particularly love mystery novels), but my level is still too low to allow me to read literary fiction. There’s still a lot of work to be done, and my blog is here to help me in my journey!

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